Book of Mercy - Hardcover

Cohen, Leonard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771022069 ISBN 13: 9780771022067

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 1984

Synopsis

Spiritual poems deal with loss, perception, prayer, grace, achievement, loneliness, death, sorrow, and blessedness

About this title

About the Author:

Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. He received his B.A. from McGill University and pursued graduate studies in English at Columbia University. Soon thereafter, he returned to Montreal and worked in his family’s clothing business while he continued to write poetry.

His artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of Let Us Compare Mythologies. He has published nine collections of poetry, most recently, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs (1993), and two novels, The Favourite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966). During the sixties he achieved national and international acclaim as a composer-singer. He has made seventeen albums, the latest being Dear Heather (2004). Numerous tribute albums, in many languages, have celebrated his songs.

Cohen was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991, and promoted to the rank of Companion in 2003. He received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in 1993, and has won numerous Juno Awards.

Review:

"An eloquent victory of the human spirit in combat with itself."
— Globe and Mail 

"One of the most honest and courageous attempts in Canadian writing to grapple with ultimate truth."
— Books in Canada

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0771022069
• ISBN 13: 9780771022067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112